O urbanismo sustentável como forma de garantir uma cidade para as pessoas

Abstract

This work seeks to present the consequences of the urban planning model adopted in most Brazilian cities, the consequences generated by this model. The research also brings to the discourse the principles of sustainable urbanism, the central theme of this monograph, since the way we plan our cities has proved inefficient, and this model of urban planning raises issues ranging from large urban centers, to the smallcities of the interior of the country. Another focus of this research is to present the examples of projects related to sustainable urbanism in small cities, since the object of this case study is the city of Leme do Prado, a city with less than five thousand inhabitants, in the valley Jequitinhonha-MG, in order to bring to discursion as the status of cities, does not oblige cities with less than thirty thousand inhabitants to draw up master plans, leaving the codes of works of these cities, as a rule, without urban parameters and use well-defined land occupation, and by surveying all the research on the theme and on the local building code, this research seeks to point out proposals for revision of the code of works of the city based on the principles of sustainable urbanism.